Please integrate WINE into the community version. I know that native applications are always preferred, but a tightly integrated WINE (with a explorer-like file manager) would add alot of additional flexibility. It would be OK for the office version (probably more appropriate), but would still be very useful for the standard version.

I don't understand your request: WINE is absolutely easy to install directly as downloaded in the version for slackware from the site of winehq: only download in / and click on it with rox. the unzipper starts. mark all and start! a few seconds later is wine in /user/bin click on winebuild etc. (I am in windows now and can not look at it now). finish.

but I have to say that different versions of wine did work all properly until vers. wine-0.9.16-i486-S10.2 and the newer versions not! it is a major problem of wine or puppy. and the puppy versions without Xorg seems don't to work with wine at all!

a minimal-wine (wine is a large application) would be an other matter, because the most people are not expert in stripping wine.

a lot of drawings programms use BIOS or other system request not being really from microsoft windows.

i don't use especially the programms named by you. i use gimp, pixia, a grandios free but only MS-windows pixel drawing programm (starts in wine but i did not really use it under wine because of the driver for the wacom tablet; so i have no real experience), and i love eva (from barry, our puppy master, as windows programmer!) but i can understand that you prefer your usual software for such purposes.

(I search for a true type designer for the linux environment and I know that corel includes this ability for example. but i have only a real old version of corel draw)

let us know what experience you do with wine! it is very interesting for a lot of people on this forum!

I just downloaded the Slackware version from winehq.com, saved it to /, extracted all, and went to /usr/bin and clicked on winebuild. It flashed (or maybe "winked" would be a better term) at me a couple of times then did nothing. If i tried doing it using a console it came up with a lot of stuff which means nothing to me but ended up with some Mode options and a line which said "The mode options are mutually exclusive; you must specify one and only one.".

Similarly, clicking on winecfg got the flashing and nothing else, and using a console got
usr/bin/wine: error while loading shared libraries: libwine.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory".

I went to the link, downloaded the 2 files mentioned
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Emulators/Wine-0.9.22/Wine-0.9.22-drive_c-and-Wordview.pup
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Emulators/Wine-0.9.22/Wine-mime-type-for-Rox-1.2.pup
Now when I click winecfg in /usr.local/Wine-mime-type-for-Rox-1.2 I get

/usr/local/Wine-mime-type-for-Rox-1.2/Winecfg:
line 3:
winecfg:
command not found

If I type winecfg in a console I get

sh-3.00# winecfg
sh: winecfg: command not found
sh-3.00#

So I still have not tasted any wine yet. I am running PuppyLinux 2.14.

I now have managed to get WINE installed (I think). The Configuration is working anyway.

I cannot seem to get anything working in it. I do have some Windoze partitions, with XP and 2000. I have tried linking to programmes on these partitions (mounted) and also unzipping a Windoze application into a folder in LINUX and linking to that. No results.

If I click on a *.exe file it says "No run action specified. . ."

Richard, I would appreciate any help available. If your papers will help then please send them. I am reasonably good at following instructions but as far as I know I am doing what it says in the WINEHQ instructions.

(discretion: one unique file contains all run time variables. if you erase this file in the directory AND in the Trash, there is nothing more of you personal data in the computer. you can do it daily very easy. and the favorites are the same as the windows favorite, so that you can continue to use the flexible windows favorites management that you did use in windows!)

windows is part of the system in the most computer kits available on the market

so it is not really necessary to interchange all this stuff if you go into the linux part of your system or into the windows part.

really, it is difficult to access to all services only with linux. webcam applications for example are available in very limited form. or OCR. divers scanner don't work in linux etc.

so we will continue a certain time to use windows, I am sorry.

so it would be incorrect to do so as if we would transgress the good convenience if we continue to use windows program where possible: all free and open source windows programs are as good as free and open source linux programs! there is no ethic difference!

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